Do you wear your sunday best for church

[amanda123]

I don't.

I used to go to a church where all the women seemed to compete for hair hats shoes and makeup.
It was competitive

I believe that is wrong

 

[Brad Huber]

I don't.

I used to go to a church where all the women seemed to compete for hair hats shoes and makeup.
It was competitive

I believe that is wrong

Its not the outside that God looks upon, its the inside. The only thing special clothes wise I wear to church (other than to apease my wife) is loose fitting normal everyday clothes. The only thing I woudnt wear to church would be clothes that show off things that tend to attract females (tight pants, tight shirts), as it should be about a focus on the Lord, not ourselves.

 

[revbrad]

I dress in a way that shows modesty and respect.
When I preach or teach I often wear a suit or tie because many do expect certain things. I am not trying to please them, live up to their standards or anything like that. I feel if they are thinking about what I am wearing then their focus is not on the Word. If I can remove a distraction by dressing in such a manner, I will.

 

[Boanerges]

I do n ot go to put on a show- I am a poet and did not know it- LOL. Seriously though, be modest, be comfortable and be relaxed, God is looking at your heart and not your shoes.

 

[amadeus2]

We should, I believe, always wear the very best that we have... for is not any special time we spend with God intended to please Him? I am not saying to go buy a tuxedo or a formal gown, but neither should we be slobs or filthy. The best of everything is what I always want to give to God. The question is what is best shouldn't be based on what other people may or may not think, but on what we believe will please the Lord. If we believe that the best clothes we have are a suit and tie, why would we not wear them? Why do we own them, if we do? Going to a church service is not and should not be simply a social gathering. Put God always first in all that we do, all that we say, all that we are... and in all that we wear.

 

[farout]

We live in a area near some very poor families live. Slacks & a tie are out of place. We are trying to blend in so nice jeans and button shirt are better than some, and just about what the rest dress.

So it all depends

 

[Eddy Fire]

men get dressed up too

but according to some
it doesn't matter
you can do what you want
when you want
how you want
to yourself
and others
so long as you think you have a cloak to put on
some may even believe so much in their cloak
that it not only makes them righteous
but that they can use the cloak as a covering

but it is God Who clothes us
and Jesus Christ Himself
Who was
for our sakes
clothed with fine purple
and a crown of thorns

sunday best
and what of the rest

some say
it is OK
to dress up
for God
some defend
unto the end
their right
to wear what they will
and through it all
both great
and small
forget the plan of love
having dressed themselves
with their desire
and not form
God above

 

[Barabbas]

We live in a area near some very poor families live. Slacks & a tie are out of place. We are trying to blend in so nice jeans and button shirt are better than some, and just about what the rest dress.

So it all depends

Exactly. If your church is in a predominately poor area what then constitutes "Sunday Best"?

And really, does it matter? If the drug addict walks in, or the prostitute will they be made more comfortable by everyone wearing "Sunday best"?

What one wears does not affect your salvation. It seems today's "Taliban Christians" are always looking at the outer man, not the inner man.

 

[amadeus2]

I recall once several years ago while attending an evening service where everyone was clean and smelling nice, a woman in her thirties came in smelling like a brewery and looking worse, entered the building and went to the altar to pray. My wife alone went and prayed with her. Eventually a couple of others, shamefully, I would say, went up and joined them in prayer. Does this scene remind us of anything?

"For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment; And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool: Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts? Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?" James 2:2-5

 

[Barabbas]

I have seen this very thing, street people coming into the church, not exactly "Sunday best". Do we send them away until they dress better?

 

[B-A-C]

I guess it depends on the circumstances.
I don't dress up every Sunday. But I do for weddings, funerals, and on Easter Sundays.
I usually wear jeans to church, but one time we took a foreign exchange student from Japan to church (she had never been to a Christian church before)
and she asked if these were every ones best clothes. I told her no, I have seen everyone dress better on occasions. She asked why we didn't give our God
our best respect. The way she asked it convicted me (and it wasn't just clothes). So for the next 3 Sundays she was with us, I dressed a little better.
I confess, I'm back to jeans now. That was several years ago.

 

[51_5_16-18]

SOMETIES. Ive lived in alot of diferent places and I adapt my dressing policy to fit those around me. If no one else dresses up but I do- then I am out of place. However if everyone else dresses up but I do Not the same thing happens. I do noo believe you have to dress your best- as others have said it is the inside that matters. You should dress modistly and try your best to get along with everyone

 

[amanda123]

Should we dress decently for God whatever the day of the week. Modestly and demurely

Why do some woman sem to ware more makeup flowery dresses and jewels at church than anywhere else. And sometimes the men such starched suits that they lool like their goin to a funeral.

I just don't like that competiive feel. I wnna go to be me.

 

[amadeus2]

Should we dress decently for God whatever the day of the week. Modestly and demurely

Why do some woman sem to ware more makeup flowery dresses and jewels at church than anywhere else. And sometimes the men such starched suits that they lool like their goin to a funeral.

I just don't like that competiive feel. I wnna go to be me .

Yes, but remember that the me that you are should be growing to become more like Him... and what will that entail?

"Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." I John 3:2

 

[Fragrant Grace]

He must increase, but I must decrease
John 3:30


No, I do not wear my 'Sunday best' (I dont have any Sunday best!!!)

The Lord doesn't need us to be dressed in fancy clothing, frocks or frills

He loves us just as we are.

A church full of people dressed in tatters, rags, designer clothes or casuals..... what does it matter if their hearts are full of praise for the Lord


I Have Christ, What Want I More?
In the heart of London City,
Mid the dwellings of the poor,
These bright golden words were uttered,
“I have Christ, what want I more.”

By a lonely dying woman,
Stretched upon a garret floor,
Having not one earthly comfort,
“I have Christ, what want I more.”

He who heard them, ran to fetch her,
Something from this world’s great store,
It was needless, died she saying
“I have Christ, what want I more.”

But her words will live forever,
I repeat them o’er and o’er
God delights to hear me say
“I have Christ, what want I more.”

Oh, my dear, my fellow sinners,
High and low and Rich and poor,
Can you say with deep thanksgiving
“I have Christ, what want I more.”

Look away from earth’s attraction
All earth’s joys will soon be o’er,
Rest not till each heart exclaimeth,
“I have Christ, what want I more.”*



* author unknown

 

[jiggyfly]

Back when I went to church, my dress depended on the function, formal, semi formal, or casual. But I seriously doubt it ever mattered to God. Looking back, a lot of things I thought were important, I now see they didn't matter at all to God. Some things are hard to recognize when your in the middle of it.

 

[mackem lady]

Yes I do wear decent clthes but I don't have sunday best that I keep for church

 

[jeffsi435]

In the church I grew up in everyone got dressed up, but I don't do that now.

 

[SpiritLedEd]

"Dressing up" for church is about vanity, not spirituality. Its a pagan practice based on the belief that a god (or gods) must be appeased, flattered in order to gain favor with them.

SLE